The Russian portion is a poem by Boris Pasternak, who turned down the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. The minor planet 3508 Pasternak was given his surname, which actually translates to “parsnip”.

The French, “Apres moi, le deluge” (After me, the flood), is a well-known historical quote. It is said to have been “a premonition of impending political and social collapse attributed to Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of Louis XV.” – Le Mot Juste, edited by John Buchanon-Brown et. al